Alex Hunt: Quite a closed nose in a dark aromatic vein: dried peach and caramel. Very confident attack in the mouth, with a palpable juiciness, yet not too sugary sweet. A nice burnedcaramel tang gives the finish additional focus - 17.5

Andrew Jefford: Deep buttercup gold. To begin with, this is light, engaging, floral: linden, mallow, and balsam, with a little toasted hazelnut behind. Barely the wisp of an apricot. After a while in the glass, though, the aromas become a little tired, somehow, and a little cardboardy. It’s a wine that struggles to retain its initial aromatic finesse. On the palate, the wine is smooth, long, tangy, mouth-filling, tonguecoating, and gratifying, with that same rather heavy-lidded, high-summer spectrum of floral aromas that was evident on the nose, here playing like sunbeams over a base barley-sugar richness. There’s something just a little baked about the flavors, and the acidity in this wine is much more muted than in some. Is this a wine off the loess soils? Anyway, it is full of charm and gratification, and at least in some ways the style shift is encouraging; you wouldn’t want all Tokaji to have the same flavor profile… 15

Mark Savage: The difference between this wine and the previous one [Royal Tokaji Tokaji Aszú 6 Puttonyos Nyulászó Single Vineyard 2007] is like that between a Sauternes and a Barsac perhaps. There is a delicate, elegant, honeyed character to the fruit here that is not immediately obvious from the rather muted and unexciting nose but emerges carefully on the palate. The word here, then, is elegance rather than mere concentration - 16